The everlasting potholes before the bend across the river are back. This will cause major traffic delays once schools open because the potholes are even deeper than before.
Road repairs is not about digging a hole and pouring new tarmac in. Rather they need a foundation that will withstand erosion from beneath and then reinforced with road material that will last. Mr Mayor, teach your staff on how to repair roads properly.
It would help to unblock the road drainage systems on Ballyclare Drive which are clearly seen to be blocked by builders’ rubble.
Also, the bridge on Ballyclare Drive was designed by engineers to have steel railings that were designed to buckle if heavy impact was to happen. This steel was lightweight yet served a purpose, now our illustrious educated municipality see fit to create new railings out of reinforced concrete weighing four times as much, after leaving a work-in-progress sign for more than nine months.
Was proper research even done to check whether the bridge could withstand this weight? Was anyone checking to see that the road gradient (which is clearly moving at an angle toward these blocks indicating there is a weight problem) has remained flat as was the case previously before work started?
